January books

My challenge this year is to read books I already have or books from the library or books borrowed from others. You can read about my challenge here. My books that I have read so far in January are: This is one that I bought for $4 at a second-hand sale.  I know I wasn’t…

My reading has suffered a little lately

I haven’t been reading as much as I usually do as I have been occupied doing other things.  This book is my latest read having read a review in the newspaper I decided to buy a copy and I haven’t been disappointed. Caroline Baum’s moving and gripping memoir is for everyone who has felt they…

A book borrowed from my elder daughter.

This was a book I had been interested to read for quite some time as there had been so many comments on Twitter about how amazing the book was and how it was time that someone had been truthful in what women really want in life. The book matched the expectations that the comments had…

Robotham again. . . .this was an absolute potboiler.

Shatter is the latest book I have read and I devoured it at top speed. It was crime fiction but an absolute thriller with a psychological edge. Playing with the minds of victims and those trying to solve the crimes. This is Robotham at his best and I can see why he won the Ned…

The French Promise. . . oh to be in Paris!

This book was given to me by my husband on Mothers’ Day. It is often difficult to chose an appropriate book for someone other than yourself but this time my husband was bang on the money!  It was a great read.  Again I have come to a book which is not the first but the…

Dead like you. No not as a result of my fitness resolution.

My latest read was Dead Like You by Peter James. This is one of his Roy Grace Novels. I first heard of Roy Grace on Books +  on the ABC radio national.  There was an interview with the author and I was enticed to read his first book – Dead Simple.  You can download the…